v. Big-endian; MSB-first. Characteristic of a CPU which doesn't allow recasting of a pointer to a scalar type into a pointer to a scalar type of a smaller size and still retain the value. For example, a pointer to a 32-bit integer with value 666 cannot be recast to a pointer to a 16-bit value without changing the value (dereferencing the new 16-bit pointer rudely accesses the high 16 bits of the original 32-bit value, giving 0). The Motorola 680x0 series of processors used in Apple Macintosh computers are wrong-endian. cf. right-endian.